12.49 miles, 3,360 feet, 3 hours 12 minutes: Fairfield Horseshoe. The highest tops are just in cloud; cool breeze at times, but a vest was all that was needed. Lots of folk about. Again, lots of road crossings.
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12.49 miles, 3,360 feet, 3 hours 12 minutes: Fairfield Horseshoe. The highest tops are just in cloud; cool breeze at times, but a vest was all that was needed. Lots of folk about. Again, lots of road crossings.
Nice. A bit jealous!
7.72 miles, 2,195 feet, 1 hour 55 minutes: Wansfell Ridge. Ground is very wet; not many out, but I left it late to start.
Walk with an old mate
7.8 miles, 530ft, 2:44 up the canal, round Hoghton Tower and back.
15 miles, 4,193 feet, 4 hours 17 minutes: Fairfield Horseshoe, plus Cofa Pike. Initially overcast, with the cloud base at about 2,00ft. Cleared up on the descent. Vest "only" temperature. Fairly quiet - I imagine the clouds put quite a few off.
7.75 miles, 2,156 feet, 1 hour 58 minutes: Wansfell Ridge. Cloud base at about 1,000 feet, constant drizzle/mizzle, but not cold so again vest only. Some sad looking walkers in full kit; one other runner taking a boggy line along the ridge.
Due to some home circumstances, training took a minor back seat the past few days. However managed to get out with my old school-friends/drinking partners who we used to to walking with in Snowdonia and the Lakes.
Was a bit of a carry-on trying to meet up as i was running up out of Church Stretton onto the Long Mynd, and they were camping on the far side of the Mynd in an unfamiliar area to them... the only clue to their whereabouts was telling me that they were going "clockwise"....?!?!
This led to me running up onto the top and combing the area, finally locating them with the use of frantic waving and telephone... which was then repeated with farcical circumstances trying to locate another lady who didn't know the area or where we were.
Still all was well that ends well and we managed a decent walk from the top of the Mynd down into Stretton, along into Little Stretton and then back up onto the top of the Mynd. I then ran off back down the road into Stretton and back to the car. Not the most imaginative of outings, there are far better routes we could have done, avoiding crowds and a lot of road walking, but still good to get out and catch up with old friends.
An easy 13 miles and 2300ft of mostly gentle walking for me, interspersed with some bouts of running, on a very pleasant day. Probably a little more strenuous for the others but seems to have rekindled the desire for them to get into the great outdoors again, which is always a positive.
8 miles flat out with the club (in Socially distanced group of 6). Been taking a group of improvers out recently and long runs at the weekend, so a speedy 8 miles hurt.
Always good meeting up with old friends Travs. I hope the event ended with a skinfull!Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
Never!Quote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
Sadly one group camping, and two of us in separate cars with longer drives home, it'll have to wait!! No doubt the campers got some in... a lot of the talk was of our usual "compulsory kit" for our historic walking trips up into Snowdonia... usually involving cans of Boddingtons!!
6.37 miles, 2,070 feet, 1 hour 44 minutes: Wansfell Ridge, without the warm-up lap of Ambleside. Busy generally. Ground still sodden; overcast at first, but cleared up to become quite warm.
Longish walk with Mrs WP.
13.09 miles, 1600ft, 3:52
Cross country to Abbey Village, Roddlesworth, Cartridge Hill, Donkey Brew, Tockholes, home.
14.92 miles, 4,341 feet, 4 hours 15 minutes: Fairfield Horseshoe, with Grisedale Tarn and Cofa Pike. Cold breeze on the tops, but still ok with just a vest. Busy, both on the fells and in town.
Averaging 9k per day since golfing has been back on.
6.34 miles, 600 feet, 64 minutes: Drunken Duck loop. Busiest - cars and walkers - these minor roads have been, but still acceptable. If only people would move over without being asked - it is as if Covid never was.
My Garmin died overnight - ordered a new one - so a rest day - brief walk to Waterhead - park/pub beer gardens not quite heaving, but busiest I have seen them this year.
11.61 miles, 1,227 feet, 1 hour 55 minutes - Drunken Duck/Outgate figure of 8. Drizzle/mizzle throughout, but not cold. New Garmin does so much - took me half an hour to work out how to start an activity.
I recently got my first ever GPS watch (kindly free from an occasional forumite)... once i'd spent half hour learning the basics i was fairly confident that was all i wanted from it (distance, time, pace, average pace).Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike T
But i've started reviewing my sessions on the Movescount app/programme (i guess it's the Sunto version of Strava) and some of the stuff you can do is amazing... i'm certainly not getting into progress measurement, recovery measurement, or anything like that (and i'll never be on Strava!!!).... but for self-analysis of a session it's a goldmine of info.
For instance i can zoom into each rep on a session, look at my exact pace at each point throughout, then reference those exact points of the rep on a map. Compare each rep and notice where i'm needing to change things (usually starting too quickly!)
This is probably bread-and-butter stuff to seasoned gps users, but to me it's fascinating!
Addictive stuff!
Been out for a walk including bits of various Woodentops productions, YORM, Haworth Hobble and Wadsworth Trog. 11.4 miles / 1,400 ft according to Strava. Busy at Top Withins but nice and quiet up across the watershed
Wansfell Ridge - Garmin is down world-wide, but it will be something like 7.6 miles, 2,100 feet, 1 hour 55 minutes. Ground is sodden and very slippery, drizzle throughout but for the last 15 minutes. Only 5 on the hill - "bad" weather certainly keeps the numbers down.
Carried my strimmer, petrol, helmet etc. 850ft up the hill through the forestry and strimmed the footpath back down again.
The trods in the Lakes await your services!Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
From my watch: 7.58 miles, 1 hour 56 minutes; and from previous experience 2,100 odd feet: Wansfell Ridge. Garmin is still "down". Drier than yesterday; lots about.
One i remember in your area being particularly bad was the route from Grasmere up to Grisedale Pass... is it the Tongue? i think there may be two parallel paths... the one i took was head-height this time of year...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike T
edit: i believe it would have been the path running up Little Tongue Gill.
20 mile on the bike, plenty of hills and forestry, rode quite well.
8 miles, 78 minutes, probably about 600 feet: Drunken Duck loop. Main roads are busy. Thankfully lots of the roads on this route are single lane.
9.83 miles, 2 hours 34 minutes; at a guess, 2,200 feet of up? Red Screes via Scandale. Intermittent drizzle/light rain; in cloud above about 1,500 feet, visibility very poor at times. Not many on the fell, town busy, beer "gardens" packed.
Then back to Ambleside down the south-ridge and road?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike T
One of my favourite "short outings" from Ambleside...
Correct - it is a lovely descent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
About 14 miles in just under 4 hours: a brisk walk, including Leicestershire's two 248-metre summits. What a contrast: Beacon Hill was absolutely rammed, as were the paths all the way from my home to the hill, and Mr Whippy was doing a roaring trade in the upper car park, with a long queue of families all standing 2 metres apart. But on top of Timberwood Hill I was alone, although I did meet four other groups of 2 to 5 walkers on the permissive paths on the large Charnwood Lodge nature reserve (which includes Timberwood Hill). Apart from them, I only saw one other walker in the 11 miles after leaving Beacon Hill Country Park.
Bike, 31 miles and 4700ft, pleased as I rode it quite well, about 12 miles off road and lots of hills!
Average speed is creeping up so I must be getting stronger.
5.64 miles, 915 feet, 58 minutes: some of the hills of Ambleside. Luckily the rain had stopped. The minor roads on the lower slopes of Wansfell are lovely and quiet compared to elsewhere.
9.74 miles, 2,900 feet, 2 hours 25 minutes: Scandale/Red Screes. Cold strong wind on top, showers visible elsewhere but I managed to avoid them so vest only. Quite a few on the fell, loads in town.
7.34 miles, 2,218 feet, 1 hour 54 minutes: Wansfell Ridge. Perfect running weather - fells are busy.
Bugger all. Drinking beer. Guilt will come later!
5.28 miles, 331 feet, 51 minutes: the lower roads of Ambleside. Busy pavements - lots of crossing the road to avoid groups. Very humid.
Beacon Hill, via Buck Hill and Felicity's Wood. Felt very slow, although I managed to keep running on most of the climbs ["running" = gait that would get me disqualified in a race-walk]. One of the signs of getting older is taking longer to recover from exercise: after my 14-mile brisk walk on Sunday, my attempt at a run on Tuesday turned into a walk/run, and I didn't feel fully recovered even today.
This was the first occasion since lockdown when I have felt any antagonism from a walker whom I have encountered while running. On the really narrow section of the path up to the Outwoods, there was a group of two men and two women, around my age or older, ahead of me. The two men were in front but seemed to notice me first and found a convenient niche in the hedge on one side. One of the women followed them there but the other one waved me to wait, so I slowed down to a walk; but I was still puffing and panting (it is uphill), so (without turning round) she said "Wait!" (which I did, until she had reached the niche).
I encountered them again on the bridleway back down from the Outwoods, which is much wider. This time the men were at the back. I said "Hello again" when I was about five yards behind, and the men moved to the side and seemed quite cheerful as I passed, but the woman said "Again" in a rather miserable voice as I went past her.
Obviously covidepressed!
7.38 miles, 750 feet, 74 minutes: Drunken Duck loop. Gosh it is hot out there - I had been thinking of going higher but getting up there would not have been pleasant. At least this route is about 50% in the shade. Not many walkers today.
12.43 miles, 3,373 feet, 3 hours 24 minutes: Fairfield Horseshoe. From Nab Scar to Dove Crag in thick cloud.
Started at 8.20am so only met 5 on the way up - loads on the way down. Much cooler than yesterday, thankfully.